Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team

Time to poke around some mysterious dungeons with Pokemon.

 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team is pretty much you would have expected Pokemon to for quite a while. Instead of the turn-based strategy of the main Pokemon games this uses a real-time strategy combined with turn-based. For example, instead of running around in grass looking for Pokemon, The Pokemon are already on the map and they come to you, because every step you take is a step they take. This game quite simply is Dungeons and Dragons meet Pokemon.

The story is very random; you wake up one day as a Pokemon and whoever you choose as a partner sucks you into the rescuing business. All 360+ Pokemon are here and awaiting you to spend half of your life trying to catch them. Since there aren’t any of those abusive trainers in this world to play as, you’ll have to be friends with them and not treat them like expendable slaves (Darn…). So the process of getting all the Pokemon seems nearly impossible. You can use all of the Pokemon’s moves from the normal games but most of the time you’ll end up just using the same basic move over and over again since it doesn’t cost and power points (PP). There’s a lot of dungeons to go into but they are all randomly generated and seem exactly the same except for the items and Pokemon appearing in them.

The graphics seem like a scaled-down version of the DS version (Blue Rescue Team), but they’re still pretty decent. The sound is fairly annoying but at least the music is diversified. This game can get very difficult if you don’t spend forever trying to level up and the dungeons are so random and similar that this game isn’t as good as it could have been.

I give Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team a four out of ten.